• Habit 1: Be Proactive
- Recognize how choices based on personal experience or beliefs can profoundly impact one's effectiveness, both positively and negatively.
  • Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
-Develop a clear definition of what is and is not important to oneself by creating the most important roadmap one will ever have - your Personal Mission Statement.
  • Habit 3: Put First Things First
-Increase the balance and fulfillment of one's professional and personal life by investing a few minutes each day. (The same planning process used by many of the world's most successful people).

The Next Three are to do with Interdependence
  • Habit 4: Think Win/Win
-Build a "team" of around oneself that finds faster and better solutions through clear expectations, shared responsibilities, and an understanding of priorities.
  • Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
-Develop the skills of effective communication that lead to greater influence and faster problem solving.
  • Habit 6: Synergize
-Value and celebrate the differences and understand how they contribute to more innovation and intelligent solutions.

The Last habit relates to self-rejuvenation;
  • Habit 7: Sharpening the Saw
-Maintain and increase one's newfound effectiveness by continually renewing oneself mentally and physically.